Being GeminiBorn under the star sign Gemini, thrust into an adult secular world from an unquestioning faith background, Marilyn Longstaff lives somewhere between the miraculous, the magical and the everyday. Being Gemini is a book about the two sides of everything lockdowns, ageing, deafness, politics and bereavement and learning to be neither one thing nor the other.

Set in a colonial Caribbean country in the post-war years

plus Timothy Ades on poems from Perec's novel La Disparition

featuring signed languages such as ASL

There is also the loyal supporter of Derek Walcott's Trinidad Theatre Workshop who did much to bring that theatre to wider Caribbean and American notice

then deftly upends

a time of dissident movements and heady music and literary scenes

s’ lyrical perspective takes the reader on a journey between body

Noel Monahan's work has appeared in The Irish Times

from modern European poets

In his typical style

and contemporary photographs

and satire puts forward an episodic theory of the form and function of the postcard as a means of critical response